Willie Benedetti of Willie-Bird Turkeys is a pretty good fisherman. Today he landed a pretty good sized fish. More on the story later, but here’s the photo and video, for now.Willie and Joe make sure the big King Salmon doesn’t fall overboa…
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#25 – The Sitka Music Festival
Just your typical Alaskan fishermen, right? Not really. Instead of a king salmon, musicians Tom Stone and Ethan Filner are way more comfortable holding and playing a 1700’s era violin or viola. So how did these and other world class mu…
#25 – The Sitka Music Festival
Just your typical Alaskan fishermen, right? Not really. Instead of a king salmon, musicians Tom Stone and Ethan Filner are way more comfortable holding and playing a 1700’s era violin or viola. So how did these and other world class mu…
#24 – Fishing Sitka
The Fontes and Frenches still have a day left to cruise and we haven’t caught a salmon yet so today we’ll give it one last shot. Last year we boated salmon south of Sitka near Long Island and the Biorka Islands. On Thursday we left the dock a…
#24 – Fishing Sitka
The Fontes and Frenches still have a day left to cruise and we haven’t caught a salmon yet so today we’ll give it one last shot. Last year we boated salmon south of Sitka near Long Island and the Biorka Islands. On Thursday we left the dock a…
#23 – Fishing Kalinin Point then Sitka
Last year we fished just off Kalinin Point in Salisbury Sound with good results. Today we exited Piper Island at 8 and were fishing at 9am. Several other boats had the same idea and we ran into two other Selenes, Spirit and Serena, fis…
#23 – Fishing Kalinin Point then Sitka
Last year we fished just off Kalinin Point in Salisbury Sound with good results. Today we exited Piper Island at 8 and were fishing at 9am. Several other boats had the same idea and we ran into two other Selenes, Spirit and Serena, fis…
#22 – Peril Strait to Piper Island Anchorage
Today we need to make some distance through Peril Strait towards Sitka. It’s about 70 miles from Red Bluff to get to the Sitka side of Sergius Narrows. Slack at the Narrows occurs at 6:30pm so it will be a long day. We do want to get …
#22 – Peril Strait to Piper Island Anchorage
Today we need to make some distance through Peril Strait towards Sitka. It’s about 70 miles from Red Bluff to get to the Sitka side of Sergius Narrows. Slack at the Narrows occurs at 6:30pm so it will be a long day. We do want to get …
#21 – Up Current to Red Bluff Bay.
Of course once inside the inner Bay of Pillars, a high tide is needed to exit. Today’s high tide begins at 2PM, an hour later than yesterdays so we will need to postpone our departure until then. The Douglass Guidebook says the current…
